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T. W. PORTER AND H. K. PORTER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN- ORS TO THEMSELVES AND OHARLESL. MARSTON.

Letters Patent No. 107 ,097, dated September 6, 187i).

METHOD OF INLAYING WOOD. i

The-Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part. of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it'known that we, T. XV. Pomnn and H. K. PORTER, of," Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State oiliassachnsetts, have invented a new and useful or improved Method of' Inlayingr Woods; and we do herebydeclare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings making-a part ot' this specitiation, which drawings are a top or .plan vie-w ot' a piece otwood inlaid by our process.

The nature of our invention consists in producing figures, lmrders, and other designs in` wood by inserting exclusively circular-shaped pieces ot' wood ot' contrasting colors, such pieces being placed contiguous to or intersecting each other, as theI figure to be produced vmay require.

A represents a piece of black walnut as the back ground; and

In Figure 1, c ava a are four circular-shaped pieces of light-colored wood, to -inscrt which holcs ot'a'cor-l responding size are bored with acenler bitLtothe depth of about one-eighth of an' inch, and the pieces are inserted in iglue,ater which a similar hole is bored in the center, and the piece b is inserted in the same manner, the hole for this latter piece int-ersecting and cuttingr into the pieces a (t, as shown.

1n Figure 2 the six pieces marked a, as well as the center-piece b, are inserted, of light-colored wood, and inserted in the same manner as tig. l, after which the dark pieces marked c are inserted, these dark pieces intersecting and reaching into the pieces a, thereby producing the figure, as shown.

In Figure 3 the light-colored pieces marked a are first inserted, after which the intersect-ing dark pieces marked b are inserted, then the light-colored pieces marked c', after which thediark center-piece l is inserted. l

In Figure 4 the larger light-colored piece a is first inserted, after which the smaller pieces marked bare inserted.

As before stated, all the pieces inserted in this process are round br circular-shaped, t-l1ere.t'ore tl1ey can be cutby machinery at aJ tritling cost; and, as the holes or recesses in which they are inserted are cut by a bit, the work ot' inlayiug, by the use of stencilplates, can be done by boys at a tritiing expense.

AA great variety ot' figures may be produced, and several kinds nf wood cany be employed in the saine tigure.

As by this process the expense of iulaying woods is reduced to a, merely nominal sum', it becomes available to all for ornamenting furniture, cabins o t' ships, rail-cars, halls, dining-rooms, .sewing-maelxinecases, musical instruments, and other purposes, obliterating the necessity of the d cad level of plain woods, which the former expense of inlaying has kept up H :wing thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure byl LettersPatent, is

Producing ornamental iignres in wood by the exclusive use of circular-shaped pieces of contrasting colors, inia-id contiguous t-o or intersecting eachother, substantially in nia-nner as described and shown.

T, W. PORTER. H. K.. PORTER.

Witnesses:

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